Golden Transcript 0813

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August 13, 2020

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VOLUME 154 | ISSUE 36

POMP AND PANDEMIC CIRCUMSTANCES GHS graduates reunite for a delayed commencement. Story and photos | P4

Union wants new committee for Jeffco restart Educators rally over safety concerns with start of school now two weeks away BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

could do to stop it. They told him the tubers were going past city limits to where they could legally access the creek and that the city could not stop them from doing so, which didn’t sit well with Bernheim. “There’s no social distancing and no one is in control,” said Bernheim. “I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy person but I just think they have an ulterior motive so they can get more people to come here and go to the restaurants and grab ice cream or sandwiches and the heck with the people that got them elected into the office to begin with.”

Just two weeks before Jeffco’s 20202021 school year will begin, Jefferson County Education Association or JCEA, the local teachers union, plans to call on the district to change its process for planning students’ return to school. The union’s main ask is that teachers have more direct say in the district’s restart plan. As opposed to district leaders controlling the restart plan, the JCEA would like the district to create a committee of leaders, teachers and parents to have the authority over changing the plan. Jeffco Public Schools has spent the summer planning for the 2020-2021 school year (scheduled to begin the week of Aug. 24), amid unfamiliar health and safety guidelines from the state and county to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Potential plans have changed throughout the summer. On July 8 the district stated that all students would have the option to learn remotely or return in-person starting the week of Aug. 24. But an update on July 23 said that from Aug. 24 through Sept. 4, all students will engage in remote

SEE CLEAR CREEK, P2

SEE RESTART, P2

Controversy on the creek Golden attempting to balance interests of safety and recreation, but some residents are frustrated BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Scott Bernheim went to downtown Golden to grab frozen yogurt with his family. He was shocked by what he saw when arrived, especially as he walked closer to Clear Creek.

“The place was just crawling with people lined up front-to-back and side-to-side and some had masks and some didn’t but they all had tubes and they were just walking and walking and walking,” he said. That scene particularly surprised Bernheim because he had heard the creek was supposed to be closed to recreation due to concerns about how crowding could spread COVID-19. He could also see that the access points to the water had been fenced off by the city. So when police officers drove by on a golf cart, he decided to ask them what was going on and if there was anything they

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